Dolphins confirm Jay Ajayi has a concussion

Dolphins running back Jay Ajayi has a concussion and will be sidelined from practice.

The Dolphins confirmed the concussion today, after he experienced symptoms following a couple of hard hits on the practice field yesterday.

The collisions that led to Ajayi’s injury caused coach Adam Gase to face some questions about whether it’s wise to have such an important player taking hits in training camp. But Gase defended the decision to have full-contact practices, saying they’re an important part of getting players ready to play when the games count in September.

Ajayi is one of the Dolphins’ most important players, so keeping him healthy is an important priority. It seems unlikely that he’ll see full contact again any time soon.

No point bubblewrapping these guys only to see them hurt wk1, and sometimes these training hits help them to learn how to better absorb impacts (e.g., was his head too high, did he not try enough to take the brunt of the impact with his shoulder etc, etc). Hey, football’s hard. Good luck Londoner Jay.

I applaud Gase’s actions and reasoning. This is football and that includes tackling and avoiding tackles. How can you possibly practice effectively without it? Do we teach teenagers to drive by sitting them on a couch and having them pretend to turn a wheel? Losing Ajayi to a concussion this early is probably better than having it happen in the first quarter of game 1. At least now they know they need to take a hard look at the rest of the guys and can plan effectively for if/when it happens during the season.

Jay Ajayi is a system product and Tannehill has been masquerading as a first round pick for several seasons now. Between those negatives and the fact the pats are still in the AFCE, I don’t see the Dolphins doing anything special this year.

Gotta agree with Gase’s decision, our tacking was embarrassing last year. Its tackle football, not flag football. Unfortunate, but these things happen, look at all the Raven injuries and they weren’t hitting.